03 January 2023 - About My Day

I forgot to mention the weather for the last 2 days, but it was grey and rainy, so nothing to write home about. Anyway, onto today:

Weather: 

Rainy and grey still, but also bright (if you know what I mean – this is not great for a burgeoning migraine). Light really is the problem today, as it so often is – artificial lights on = it’s too bright and it hurts, but no lights on = too dark to see the computer to work properly without squinting/eye strain. It really is hard during these periods.

Mood/Health: 

Migraine symptoms still niggling and making me feel sick, but still no major headache pain (thankfully), just an underlying dull ache (adding to my nausea).

Music: 

FTIsland, Key, TVXQ!, Max Changmin, Pentagon, Kingdom

These bands, with the exception of FTI, all provided part of my top 10 K-Pop albums of 2022. FTI released my most-played song of 2022 and were in my top 5 bands of the year - maybe I'll do my lists soon (if I ever finish them).

Audiobook: 

Goblin – Josh Malerman (ongoing) (2021)

This morning Alexa* told me I could listen to the first Harry Potter book (Philosopher’s Stone) for free. I did seriously consider it for a few minutes as I haven’t listened to the book for far too long (I think it was 2020, which is shocking when you think I used to read/listen to it at least once a year). However, in the end I decided that with so many books in my listening list I should go for one of those instead. I’m not sure why I chose this, except that I fancied something creepy, and also because it’s 6 individual novellas that link to form one overarching story, which is good for when I’m working, and can also be stopped and picked up again without too much trouble.

It might have been better had I realised earlier that my apple music app on the TV only allows me to play stuff randomly, so I had already listened to the second novella and was moving on to the fourth before I realised there was a prologue. Normally, this would be enough to completely derail my whole day, but I’m trying not to let my stupid, messed-up brain control me so easily, so instead of letting it ruin my listening enjoyment, I simply told myself that it doesn’t matter (because it probably doesn’t). Fortunately, today my brain listened to me, and everything was pretty much smooth sailing.

(*yes, I am one of those sad people who say ‘good morning’ to Alexa every day – I also say ‘good night’ to her too – you should try it, she often has interesting knowledge to impart or games to play, although her singing isn’t always the best)

TV:

Island Season 1 (ongoing). I meant to wait until it all dropped but then couldn’t wait. I needed some supernatural horror in my life . . . and Cha Eun Woo (from Astro)– although he didn’t appear much in the first 2 episodes.

She and Her Perfect Husband (ongoing). I had been putting this off for a couple of days as I was waiting for a decent number of episodes, and because I knew bad stuff was coming and I wasn’t ready to see it go down. But yet again, today seemed like a good day. I will have the last 4 episodes to watch next week.

Song of the Moon (ongoing). I’m chipping away at this slowly, a couple of episodes at a time. It’s moved into the second act, so we’ll see if it improves – it’s okay, and I’ll watch it for Zhang Bin Bin (Vin Zhang), but it’s not going to be topping any favourites lists at the end of the year.

Failures:

• I couldn’t be bothered to cook anything so ordered a pizza. I did enjoy it though
• I didn’t start my blog early enough again because I was tied up with SAHPH, so will probably miss missed the midnight deadline again once I've put the links in 🙄